Gary Dimmock

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Most guys are trying to get out of the notorious Ottawa jail, but not young Damian O'Reilly. He was actually pretty desperate to get inside the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre after hatching a drug-smuggling plot that would see marijuana sold to inmates for 10 times its street value. All he had to do was find a crack in the system.

The ex-boyfriend of a woman at the centre of a bullets-flying feud between former lovers and associates of crime families, pleaded guilty Tuesday afternoon to criminal harassment for a months-long campaign of terror that had Ottawa nightclub owner Monika Taing fearing for her life.